Paper Concerto
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Paper Concerto is a contemporary percussion concerto by Chinese composer Tan Dun, known for its innovative use of paper as a primary musical instrument to explore unconventional timbres and textures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paper Concerto canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1524832 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paper Concerto Context triple: [Tan Dun, notableWork, Paper Concerto]
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A.
The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
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B.
The Musician
The Musician is a fictional storyteller and performer who appears as one of the diverse narrators gathered at the inn in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s "Tales of a Wayside Inn."
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C.
La Musique
La Musique is a 1910 oil painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a group of figures engaged with music in a bold, simplified, and vividly colored Fauvist style.
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D.
Piano Concerto
Piano Concerto is a modern orchestral work for solo piano and ensemble by American composer John Harbison, reflecting his distinctive contemporary classical style.
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E.
The Paper
The Paper is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard that follows the hectic, deadline-driven day at a New York City tabloid newspaper.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paper Concerto Target entity description: Paper Concerto is a contemporary percussion concerto by Chinese composer Tan Dun, known for its innovative use of paper as a primary musical instrument to explore unconventional timbres and textures.
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A.
The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
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B.
The Musician
The Musician is a fictional storyteller and performer who appears as one of the diverse narrators gathered at the inn in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s "Tales of a Wayside Inn."
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C.
La Musique
La Musique is a 1910 oil painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a group of figures engaged with music in a bold, simplified, and vividly colored Fauvist style.
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D.
Piano Concerto
Piano Concerto is a modern orchestral work for solo piano and ensemble by American composer John Harbison, reflecting his distinctive contemporary classical style.
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E.
The Paper
The Paper is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard that follows the hectic, deadline-driven day at a New York City tabloid newspaper.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical composition
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percussion concerto ⓘ |
| composer | Tan Dun ⓘ |
| composerNationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| creator | Tan Dun ⓘ |
| explores |
extended percussion techniques
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sound possibilities of paper ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| hasMovementType | concerto ⓘ |
| hasTitleWord |
Concerto
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Paper ⓘ |
| innovationArea |
orchestration
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sound design ⓘ |
| instrumentationFeature | paper used as primary sound source ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| notableFeature | use of paper as musical instrument ⓘ |
| notableWork | Paper Concerto self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| period | 21st-century music ⓘ |
| primaryInstrument | percussion ⓘ |
| style | experimental music ⓘ |
| textureFocus | unconventional textures ⓘ |
| timbreFocus | unconventional timbres ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
paper
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percussion ensemble ⓘ |
| workOf | Tan Dun ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: Paper Concerto Description of subject: Paper Concerto is a contemporary percussion concerto by Chinese composer Tan Dun, known for its innovative use of paper as a primary musical instrument to explore unconventional timbres and textures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tan Dun